Our Cali Trip... Continued

My whole life I have been blessed with great friends.

Growing up there was a big group of us "Mormons kids" that loved hanging out and having good clean fun. Every weekend we would travel to a different youth Stake dance to meet cute boys. It was so much fun!! I always felt lucky to have such a good group of friends to hang out with, but never realized what a blessing it was till I was a bit older to appreciate what we really had... friends with high standards that were a good example to me. My parents never had to worry that we were out doing bad things because as a group we would never let another friend make a dumb choice. :) We were far from perfect and on more than one occasion told to remove our ice blocks from the hill at the park, but for the most part, in our little group it was "cool" to stand up for what we believed and "CTR"... Choose the Right.

While in California I was able to meet up with some of my closest childhood friends, Rebecca, Heather and Melissa. They now have several children, but as we had lunch together it was as though we were still in high school laughing about silly things- as if no time had passed at all. Our good friend Shannon was in Spain with her husband (lucky girl!!) but we will catch her next time!

I loved introducing little Cal to them... it was so much fun!

E.J. is quite the baseball player. We were able to go to his game- watch him pitch for an inning and even hit one way into outfield. He kept telling me before the game that he was going to play his best for Cal... and he did!

My parents were lucky enough to find a cruise for an INCREDIBLE price that week- the only bummer is that they were not with us for the first couple days of our visit. As soon as they returned Grammy would not share Cal with anyone- smile! She said that she had to catch up on her snuggle time... and she did! Both My mom and dad could not believe how much Cal had grown in such a short amount of time.

My mom's best friend Silvija has always been like an Aunt to our family. She loves us just like family! We were thrilled that she could drive up with her husband, Ron, from San Diego to meet our Calan. She knit the adorable hat Cal has on in this picture and found a lovely baby book for adoptive families- how great is that? She also gave me a sweet figurine of a mother and baby- I love it!

Before too long it was time to pack up and head home. Our trip went by much too quickly, but we enjoyed every minute of it!

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We were so impressed with Cal... he traveled like a champ! He slept most of the way but when he did wake up he would look at me with the facial expression "Am I still in this crazy car seat?" What a trooper!

Happy first Road Trip Little Man!